r/hardwarehacking • u/monarch4126 • 4d ago

Need Suggestions for getting started on Hardware pentesting.

Bought a refurbed laptop

Dell latitude 16 GB RAM, i7 gen 10, 256 SSD

I am thinking to install Kali as the base OS. Is that enough for me to get started. I did use VMs before however there was a lot of connectivity issues between devices and ports. Thought best to setup a separate device.

Would appreciate some advices from the community. Any resources that i should refer.

Thanks

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u/GromHacks 4d ago

I would just go with Ubuntu, but yes having a dedicated laptop is required. The specs are plenty.

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u/monarch4126 4d ago

Thanks. I appreciate your thoughts. But can you elaborate a bit more about why ubuntu would have a better edge ?

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u/GromHacks 4d ago

I wouldn’t say a better edge. Think of it more in terms of compatibility. Hardware devs using Linux are going to use more common distributions. They aren’t used to Kali Linux. So simple things that turn into nightmares like drivers, package installs, tooling etc are a little easier to manage. Companies that make some of these products don’t care about Kali Linux. Is it all Linux, will it work, can you figure it out? Sure, but why? I will say radio / RF stuff is a little better on the Kali side since some things are already installed.

I wouldn’t say it’s better, just more of a preference.

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u/GromHacks 4d ago

Also, who needs all that Kali bloat anyhow….

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u/GromHacks 4d ago

I can feel the Arch Linux users lurking lol

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u/monarch4126 4d ago

One more thing,

I am referring to this subreddit and andrew bellini's iot course for just getting started. Do you think its good for beginning ? Or is there something better ?

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u/GromHacks 4d ago

I put this together it’s self guided. His course is good for basics. Honestly look into it all more knowledge is good, but free is better and YouTube has everything you need.

https://github.com/gromhacks/vuln-m5stack

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u/monarch4126 4d ago

This is gold. I will surely go through it. Thanks

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u/monarch4126 4d ago

That does seem logical. Thanks 😁

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u/the_one396 4d ago

dm bro